Armley Gyratory highways construction enters next phase to replace footbridges
The removal of the Spence Lane footbridge over the Armley Gyratory is to begin later this month. This is the first of three footbridges around the Gyratory which will be removed and replaced with new footbridges with more accessible footways, set to complete next year. Built in the early 1970’s the fifty-year-old footbridges, starting with […]
London parents encouraged to champion active school travel as TfL launches makeover of its education programme
Most London schools have signed up to TfL’s successful education programme with almost a quarter seeing exceptionally high levels of or increases in pupils walking and cycling Using active travel for the school run instead of the car can help improve young Londoners’ health and wellbeing Almost a quarter of London schools are making significant […]
VolkerSmart Technologies awarded £2.5 million EV installation works for Trojan Energy
VolkerSmart Technologies has been awarded phase two of the rollout of flat and flush kerbside electric vehicle charge points in Barnet. The approx. £2.5 million contract will begin in October and is expected to be completed in May 2024. The project will be delivered on behalf of Trojan Energy. The business is delivering a full […]
Balfour Beatty secures Scottish Government funding to drive innovative hydrogen retrofit project
Balfour Beatty has announced that it has become the first construction company to secure funding from the Scottish Government’s Emerging Energies Technology Fund to retrofit carbon intensive vehicles to run off both hydrogen and diesel, also known as dual fuel. As part of the innovative project, the Scottish Government has provided over £240,000 with Balfour […]
Visitors experience the Meon experience
On Tuesday the 5th of September line marking and surface repair specialists Meon hosted their first ‘OnTour Experience Event’. This follows Meon’s successful maiden voyage of the brand new OnTour trailer at this year’s LCRIG Innovations Festival, where they had the chance to show off the latest innovations and share skills and knowledge through live […]
Scotland’s Ambassador for Active Travel concludes appointment
Former professional mountain bike rider and co-founder of the Adventure Syndicate, Lee Craigie, has concluded her appointment as Scotland’s Ambassador for Active Travel. Lee was successful in offering a strong, trusted, and impartial voice to take a lead on broadening and deepening the public conversation on active travel. Building on her three year posting as […]
DfT ITS Policy Lead issues challenge to the industry
Darren Capes, manager of the Transport Technology Forum and ITS Policy Lead at the Department for Transport has challenged the signals industry to consider how traffic signals can make a real difference to the way we travel. Speaking to the JCT Traffic Signals Symposium in Nottingham he set out three challenges to use traffic signals […]
Lifesaving alerts demo proposal in Australia
Industry and government organisations from Europe and Australia are calling for a trial of the deployment of potentially life-saving technology in Australia, which would send coordinated, vital messages and alerts to drivers and travellers. The proposal was made during a discussion at last month’s ITS Australia Summit. A Special Interest Session (Emergency Alerts & Warnings […]
Transport Committee says legislation needed to “continue great British success story of self-driving vehicles”
The Transport Committee has published its report on the future of self-driving vehicles and how the Government should approach their introduction to the UK’s roads. The cross-party Committee makes a number of recommendations on how regulations should be updated to tackle concerns about safety and security, dilemmas over legal liability, as well as infrastructure that […]
